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What does it mean when the mechanic tells you your air conditioning in your car needs to be updated?

I own a Lincoln Town Car, 1991, and Ive been to 3 mechanics about the air conditioning not working. Ive been told that the air conditioning in the car needs to be updated, and from each place I was quoted at between $500 and $650 to have it fixed.

A 1991 automobile has air-conditioning designed to use Freon-12.

That type of Freon was banned for use many years ago, and manufacturers built equipment to use Freon-134A. Freon-12 is no longer available, although there are people who claim to have some. Maybe they had a can or two they bought years ago, or maybe they got some that was smuggled into the United States. Repair shops are required to use special equipment when they remove Freon from an automotive air-conditioning system and to store it for recycling so it can be cleaned are re-used.

All automobile air conditioning equipment leaks a tiny bit of the working fluid, and over time it has to be replenished, and the mechanics have no Freon-12 to replenish with. They cannot put in Freon-134A as it requires higher working pressures, and your compressor and hoses cannot operate at those higher pressures. So they will have to extract the whatever Freon-12 is left inside the system and then remove the hoses and compressor, then install the replacement hoses and compressor and fill with Freon-134A.

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